This article showcases our top picks for the best Seoul based E-Commerce companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the E-Commerce industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Seoul E-Commerce Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
TMON
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
TMON (Ticket Monster) is one of leading e-commerce companies in Korea.
Market Kurly
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Market Kurly is a food delivery and logistics platform that enables its users to order food online.
Tridge
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Tridge is a digital platform that combines technology and human network to connect buyers and suppliers globally.
CLO Virtual Fashion
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
CLO Virtual Fashion develops true-to-life, 3D garment simulation technology for fashion and film/gaming industries.
MUSINSA
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Online fashion platform where you can enjoy everything about fashion.
Karrot Market
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Karrot is a hyperlocal community app which offers a secondhand marketplace.
WeMakePrice
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Wemakeprice (위메프) is a Korean social commerce platform offering e-commerce and internet advertising services.
Coupang
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Coupang offers an e-commerce platform that is powered by innovative technology and operations.
RIDI
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
RIDI Corporation is South Korea’s leading content platform specialized in Web Comics, Web fiction and e-book, headquartered in Seoul.
Wholesum Brands
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
We transform the entrepreneur journey by discovering, acquiring, and scaling brands that consumers love.
YDEA
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
YDEA is a Korean-based startup company focused on providing new-age e-commerce solutions to its customers.
Balaan
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
A luxury fashion platform innovating luxury industry by utilizing IT and reforming distribution structure with 200+ boutiques connected
flex
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Flex is a human relations platform that addresses a wide range of difficulties in enterprises involving people and organizations.
Barogo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Barogois is a Logistics & Supply Chain firm offering delivery, technology, mobile, transportation, e-commerce, food delivery services.
Althea
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Althea is Korea’s premier beauty e-commerce that provides the latest beauty products, trends and lifestyle to consumers in Southeast Asia.
DAILYHOTEL
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
DAILYHOTEL is a smartphone application that allows users to find and book luxury hotels.
Miso
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
We make booking services (cleaning, moving, remodeling) as easy as buying products on Amazon
Storets
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Storets was born from a desire to offer trendy, stylish, high quality fashion that doesn’t break your wallet.
ODDM
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ODDM is mobile / online marketing platform company in Korea running automatic influencer marketing platform, Adpick
OHouse
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
OHouse is a all-in-one lifestyle platform enabling customers to easily source & purchase goods for their homes.
Bringko
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Bringko is an integrated shopping platform that provides easy and quick purchase of Korean products.
OGQ
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
OGQ is a Social Creators Platform. 14M Creators upload images, videos, musics, stickers like emoji and fonts to OGQ market.
Bungaejangter
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Bungaejangter operates as a mobile C2C marketplace application.
AIONCO KOREA Co
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
AIONCO KOREA provides competitive item sourcing and logistics solution service.
Picky
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Picky is a fast-growing mobile-first community that enables consumers to discover the best beauty, skincare brands, and products.
Trust Us
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Trust Us is a Korean IT venture company that offers online content and services such as Poing and My Booking, two food-related apps.
Tumblbug
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Tumblbug is an online Korean crowdfunding site focused on art and cultural content.
YAP
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The YAP Company is a Korean startup providing O2O commerce platform
B2Link
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
B2Link is an online B2B beauty platform that offers subscription services for branded products.
Tuck & Company
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Tuck & Company Inc.provides mobile start-up, personal, and interpersonal commerce platforms.
29CM
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
29CM runs an online select shop 29cm, which provides customers with various kinds of domestic and foreign brands.
Hellomarket
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Korea’s mobile P2P classifieds marketplace on steroids
Boosters
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Boosters is a brand aggregator that acquires, develops, and expands brands.
Enuri
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Enuri is a price comparison company based in South Korea.
GrowthFit
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
GrowthFit provides data analytics solution(Saas) for E-commerce
Linkshops
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
April is a Dongdaemoon (Korea’s biggest fashion marketplace) based B2B clothing wholesale service.
The Clozet
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
THE CLOZET is a fashion sharing service aiming to be Airbnb for fashion.
FLEAPOP
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Fleapop provides women in their teens and 20s with an opportunity to experience the latest fashion items and online items every two days.
Onemoment
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Onemoment offers a flower delivery service to convey happiness.
SIOT
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
SIOT provide e-commerce software frameworks to make people easier.
Ibuildea
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Ibuildea provides 3D printing solutions in Korea.
GS Shop
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
GS Shop is an on-line shop set up to make the purchasing of products much easier and available.
Marymond Corp.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Marymond realizes the restoration of dignity through product design and infromative contects.
SKY
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
SKY is smartphone brands that provide other electronic product.
ChannelBreeze
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ChannelBreeze (채널브리즈) is a Korean company that provides social commerce services through an online platform including social network
Planet8
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Planet8 is an internet startup incubator based in Korea, also focused on providing internet and software solutions to its customers.
Brich
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
An O2O service delivering the latest Korean fashion trends online .
EC21
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
EC21 is a B2B e-commerce company connecting buyers and suppliers through e-marketplaces.
WashApp Korea
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Clean baskets are not just a laundry basket contained only clothes.
Woman’s Talk
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Woman’s Talk, Korea’s is a first online mobile beauty home shopping.
simplyO
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
simplyO is a marketplace for everyone and offers premium consumer goods at breakthrough prices.
MeasureChina
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
MeasureChina is AI powered software for China marketing. It solves challenges in understanding 1.3B Chinese consumers within seconds.
Qustreet
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Qustreet.com is an online retail store specialized in selling apparels from new brands in Korea.
11Street
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
11Street is an online marketplace for clothing and beauty products.
VRISM
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
VRISM develops REALVU, online product 3D (AR and VR supported) viewer, which can enhance online shopping experience to another level.
NOSITH
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nosith/patplex provides online patent search and marketing platform in patent transaction.
WishLink
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
WishLink develops mobile shopping services such as Cacao Style, an advertising, brokerage and e-commerce platform for personal shopping.
Cafe24
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Cafe24 is a global e-commerce platform that provides everything you need to build an online DTC store in one-stop.
Danggeun Market
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Danggeun Market develops an online secondhand marketplace that connects buyers and sellers within a neighborhood.
PesaMall
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
PesaMall is an e-commerce venture that aims to connect people in East Africa to high quality products sourced from Korea, Japan, and China.
E-mart
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
E-mart is a retail company that distributes and sells products through online shopping, specialty stores, and supermarkets.
Aladin Communication
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Aladin Communication is a bookstore that offers books, albums and cosmetics products.
Sell it
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sell it is personal manager for selling second hand goods for you based mobile technology
BOOKCUBE
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
BOOKCUBE is an eBook portal that provides comics and webtoons books.
WISHUPON, Inc.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
WISHUPON is a universal shopping wishlist.
Global Interpark
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Interpark offers online travel booking services and international shipping to more than 230 countries.
Gmarket
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Gmarket is an online marketplace for clothing, accessories, cosmetics and electronics.
Shopee Korea
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Shopee Korea is an e-commerce platform offering customers with an easy, secure and fast online shopping experience.
eBay Korea
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
EBay Korea is an online marketplace that connects a network of e-commerce buyers and sellers.
WISHTREND
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Wishtrend is a company that sells, distributes, trades and exports Korean cosmetics, currently targeting Asian market at broad.
NextChapter
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
NextChapter is a eCommerce aggregator based in Korea that acquires and operates Coupang and Naver-based online native brands.
Biginsight
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
End-to-End marketing solution & services that maximizes customer value via segmentation and campaign automation.
Ebates
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Ebates is an e-commerce discovery platform offering a smarter way to shop.
SAIB
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
A femtech company designing high-quality sexual wellness products for women
Sellerhub
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sellerhub is a web-based eCommerce platform for the online sellers integrating with up to 30 major eCommerce sites (ex. Coupang, Naver).
10 Minute Squad
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
GoPuff for Korea. We deliver groceries in 10 minutes in Seoul through a networks ‘dark stores’.
I LOVE J
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
I LOVE J is an online children’s clothing store.
The Encore Company
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The Encore Company is a startup studio that builds market disruptive businesses that can scale globally out of Korea.
SK Magic
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
SK Magic is an e-commerce platform that buying kitchen & home appliances, household goods, and other accessories.
OKMALL
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
OKMALL is an e-commerce shop for fashion goods and consumer goods.
Shinsegae TV Shopping
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Shinsegae TV Shopping is a television shopping service company.
NBT Partners
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
NBT Partners is a Korean provider of mobile and online platform and application development services.
ECPlaza
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ECPlaza is an online B2B trad marketplace company.
New Vessel
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
New Vessel is a e-commerce operations, strategy, finance, and law.
N.CODE
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Providing luxury goods of diverse brands through affiliation with European luxury boutiques.
Fila Korea
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Fila Korea is an e-commerce company that provides sports apparel.
Autowini
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Autowini Inc.provides an e-commerce website and platform focused on vehicles and related services.
Youngone
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Youngone is a manufacturer of outerwear, shoes and bags.
Trazy
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Discover & book the latest, trendiest, newest tours, activities, tickets, and things to do in South Korea and Thailand.
STEPPAY
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
STEPPAY is a Korean subscription payment platform.
Peopet
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Peopet is a pet adoption service platform allowing users to legally register their pets.
Packative
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Platform to design and order custom packaging online